This is the month we celebrate motherhood. I've got to tell you, I have a lot to celebrate. My mom was an amazing woman. In addition to raising a family she was active in her community and even wrote a weekly column for our community newspaper. Clever, creative, caring, godly and oh, so cute, she made my life fun growing up and was my best friend. Even though she was an older mother when she had me (my brothers were teenagers when I was born) she always had plenty of energy to keep up, and when I was a teenager having parties she and my dad were right there in the thick of it, enjoying the fun and games. And my friends loved it! When I was sick or feeling down, when the kids were driving me nuts, she was always there to listen. When I needed advice, she had it. (And sometimes she had advice when I didn't want it, too!) She never lost her zest for life. (I think she was eighty when I dragged her to a slumber party at my church. In her Betty Boop nightshirt she was the hit of the party and she stayed up all night yakking and playing games with us!) But that's enough about my mom. Now I want to hear about yours! Tell me a little about your mom (25 words or less) and at the end of the month we'll have a drawing and give one lucky a winner a $25 Starbucks gift card. Contest ends May 30th.

My Mom had me when she was 19 and never had much growing up or after she married. My Dad was an alcoholic so she put up with a lot through the years. She is now 78 years old and enjoying her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Amber H.

4/29/2013 12:03:37 pm

My mom is such an amazing woman. She raised 4 of us kids practically by herself. My dad is an over the road truck driver. She's always been so supportive of us and dotes on the grandkids.

kp

5/1/2013 02:23:44 am

My mom had a really bad childhood, but didn't let that stop her from having her own family. She married my dad when they were 18 and had 5 children. They were married for 48 years until my dad passed away. They started with nothing and built a family together. My mom is 80 and still going strong! She loves her kids, grandkids and greatgrandaughter!

Janelle

5/1/2013 02:46:23 am

My mom has inspired me so much through her selflessness in giving up her job to stay at home and raise my brother, sister, and me, in her tireless pursuit of her passion, in her encouragement of our continued learning, in her quiet grace. She has handed down her love of God, her love of the written word, her sense of humor, her generosity. I would not be the woman I am today without her constant influence in my life. She's given up a lot, but she has given her children that much more.

Glenda Gum

5/1/2013 03:10:22 am

My mom and dad have been married almost 62 years and she is still the most beautiful woman, inside and out, that I know. Although she worked in my teen years, she was always there for my sister and me. When Mom finally retired, she taught herself how to quilt so she could make quilts for each of her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mom does a lot of canning and baking that she shares not only with us, but with her church family as well. She was finally convinced to join her church choir last year at age 80. Mom looks and acts as if she is 60. I love her and am so proud she is my mother.

Sue Brandes

5/1/2013 03:12:37 am

My mom was very loving and caring. I really miss her.

Janet T

5/1/2013 03:56:05 am

My mom is a breast cancer survivor and that makes her extra special in my book!

Mary

5/1/2013 04:21:53 am

This will be my 12th Mother's Day without my mom. She was sweet, gentle, kind, creative, brilliant...a hard act to follow! Luckily, she was so very proud & supportive of all of us, we never felt we had to compete or measure up. EVERYONE was a super-star in her eyes!

I miss you, Mom!

Debbie Rudder

5/1/2013 12:05:01 pm

My mom passed away a few years ago but I still miss her. Something happens and I still want to pick up the phone and tell her about it. She was a single mom and she did her best to see that we had everything we needed. She was absolutely the best mom a girl could have. I try to be the best I can because of her.

Kai W.

5/1/2013 01:16:53 pm

My mom spent her early years surviving WW II. Her father was killed by the Japanese during the war and her family lost everything. Her mother basically abandon her after the war when she was ten. She basically had to grown up fast. She didn't have a childhood. When she came here, she tried to give my sisters and me some sort of childhood normalcy that she didn't have growing up. She is now 75+ years and suffering from dementia. From time to time, she would tell my sisters and me that we had it easy growing up while she spent her childhood trying to survive the war. I have to admire her for all she have gone through to even provide all five of us college education when she only have two years of private school.

bn100

5/1/2013 05:28:38 pm

My mom raised us, took care of her parents, cooked, and cleaned all while working full time and she never complained.

Marla

5/1/2013 10:01:16 pm

My mom is the best. I'm very close to her, and we don't live far from each other. She gives me advice when I need it, and is always there to listen to what's going on in my life.

Cynthia E. Blain

5/1/2013 10:11:50 pm

My mother who passed away in 1999 gave all three of her daughters
everything she didn't have herself while growing up. She was generous to a fault but that is what truly made her happy in life, to give to others.. We miss her more than words can say and try to live by her example.

Mel K.

5/2/2013 12:43:30 am

My mom is the most intelligent woman I know. She went back to college in her 60's and graduated summa cum laude with a Master's in art.

Theresa N

5/4/2013 11:36:50 am

My Mom is always there when I need her.

Beverly G

5/8/2013 12:45:19 am

in 25 words or less that's hard but ill try honestly but 25isnt enough. mom is selfless and awesome giving shes raising my deceased sisters 7 children even after hers were shes still the strongest person I know. in 11 months time from march 2012 till feb 2013 she lost a granddaughter, her daughter ,and her husband and hasn't lost her faith in love or humanity. I tried to describe in 25 just couldn't be done

JackieW

5/10/2013 08:01:53 am

One thing I always remember about my mother is that she treated my sister and I equally...never doing or giving more or less to one or the other. Of course, it might have been easier to do beings we are twins. She was always a loving mother.

Linda Shook

5/13/2013 03:35:02 am

My mom was truly a Proverbs 31 woman. She loved the Lord, her family and was always there for those in need. Her life was a tremendous influence on all who came in contact with her. She's been gone nearly 26 years and I miss her greatly.

JOYE

5/14/2013 07:21:26 am

The one thing (of numerous things) my Mother did for me was encourage me to become a reader. She patiently listened to me sounding out the words and learning to read. She always acquired books for me and my sister to read and she would discuss them with us. My love of reading has never diminished and for that, I can't thank her enough. She was a reader also, and belonged to several book clubs.

Susan

5/29/2013 11:49:56 pm

My mom is my BEST FRIEND. With the 25 words or less rule, this is my mom in a nutshell! ;)

Linda S.

5/30/2013 12:17:34 am

Although my mom is not here in body anymore she is forever in my heart. She passed away 10 years ago and not a day goes by that I don't think of her or miss her. She worked her whole life and raised three great kids. She was my rock and my best friend. She made me fight for things in life just like she did and helped me to become the woman I am today. I will forever love her!!

Kathleen

5/30/2013 12:17:57 am

My mother was a strong advocate for education, this may be because her mother was a teacher. My mother finished HS and graduated with her associates the year I graduated from HS. I now have an associates and my husband and I graduated with a bachelors in the same ceremony as our daughter, who got her masters.

I'm obviously no writer, because that's 57 words.

Kathi Van Houten

5/30/2013 09:10:24 am

My mom is the quintessential mom for her time - loves her kids dearly, would do anything for them, but was tough when she needed to be, She's been with my dad since they began dating at 12, and my mom's days revolved around getting us to school, practice, making dinner, helping with homework, ensuring we had a good understanding of right and wrong. I could never lie to my mom. She is 85 now, and I still can't do it! If I end up being half the mom that my mom was, I will be doing good. Hard to live up to her role model, but I sure try. I love you mom!

Gloria Walshver

9/24/2013 01:30:21 am

My mom will be 90 years old on Nov 2, she swims and does exercise at a gym,she cooks for my daughter who has 3 children and lives in her apartment building. She is an exceptional woman.